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#phrase

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phrase




Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.


Cathy Hopkins


#diet

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.


Elizabeth Eulberg


#humor #paraphrased #parody #dating

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.


Helen Fielding


#life

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.


Benjamin Disraeli


#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.


Bruce Feirstein


#austen #fortune #jane #jane austen #man

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.


Robert Cormier


#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.


Evan Dando


#decent #down #everything #experiences #find

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.


Gunter Grass


#becomes #citizens #common #country #dead

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.


Roy Jenkins


#become #been #better #civilised #dirty

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views.


Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa


#block #implies #opposition #phrase #same






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